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  • Mountain Daddy's Fate: A Mountain Man's Baby, Second Chance Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Mountain Daddy's Fate: A Mountain Man's Baby, Second Chance Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    "A secret this BIG is what broke us in the first place. ". Three things I know about Eli:. 1. I broke his heart over a decade ago. 2. The reason I left him was. unspeakable. . A secret I've kept hidden all these years. 3. Even though I'm engaged to another man I'm still madly in love with. him. . How is this my life! ?! Eli's about to receive the biggest shock of his life...
  • Can't Help Falling In Love by Erika Kelly

    Can't Help Falling In Love by Erika Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas…. The moment Beckett O’Neill retires from professional sports, he swears off schedules and commitments. His new gig has him hopping from one exotic location to the next. No strings, no responsibilities. Nothing that will tie him down. Until he runs into her, the woman who stole his heart for a night in Vegas. .
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  • Oceans Apart by Karen Kingsbury

    Oceans Apart by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A riveting story of secret sin and the healing power of forgiveness. Airline pilot Connor Evans and his wife, Michele, seem to be the perfect couple living what looks like a perfect life. Then a plane goes down in the Pacific Ocean. One of the casualties is Kiahna Siefert, a flight attendant Connor knew well. Too well...
  • Home Base by Abbie Zanders

    Home Base by Abbie Zanders

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the third installment of the 2022 season of The Long Road Home series. No matter the road we travel, we're always heading for our Home Base. After fourteen years in the army, Dylan Grant is more than ready to come home, settle down, and seriously consider starting a family of his own. Thanks to one stolen, forbidden moment long ago, he might already have...
    Categorized as:
    secret child  suspense  military  contemporary  m-f
  • Saving Gavin: A Second Chance Military Romance by Kaci Rose

    Saving Gavin: A Second Chance Military Romance by Kaci Rose

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I let her go before I enlisted. I left my heart with her. Now I’m home for good – my world has changed, my sight gone. Not only do I have to be with her every day as I learn to navigate the world around me, but I have to come face to face with my regrets. She deserves more than me. I need her. I want her...
  • The Rage of Reading by Elizabeth N. Harris

    The Rage of Reading by Elizabeth N. Harris

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She was everything people avoided. Shy, socially awkward, terrified of her own shadow and far too happy in her own company. He was a prospect, not a full brother but he was interested, and in more than one night. Then another brother tells him to lay claim or he will. If a brother lays claim to her it's done and dusted, finished. He was only a prospect...
  • Forever Yours by Debbie Johnson

    Forever Yours by Debbie Johnson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Gemma knows perfectly well how one moment can change your life forever. That's why, for two decades, she's lived life by the rulebook. But this year, everything is different. The beloved daughter she gave up for adoption all those years ago is about to turn eighteen - and that means, there's a chance of being found. For the first time in her life, Gemma can no longer run from her secrets...
    Categorized as:
    secret child  contemporary  audiobook
  • Operation: Endurance by Christi Snow

    Operation: Endurance by Christi Snow

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They had a single night of passion before he deployed on a risky mission. 18 hours on a mission gone very wrong was all it took to shatter all their hopes and dreams. The hero:. He survived 6 months of captivity and torture, kept alive by dreams of her. The heroine:. She thought he was dead and moved on only to have her world fall apart once again...
  • Unforgettable You by Brenda Novak

    Unforgettable You by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    New York Times. bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs, where no past mistake is so big the heart can't find a way to fix it. Jada Brooks couldn't have known how her life would change when she fell for bad boy Maddox Richardson back in high school. She couldn't have known his troubled brother would leave hers forever crippled...
  • Taken by a Trillionaire by Melody Anne, Ruth Cardello

    Taken by a Trillionaire by Melody Anne, Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Three New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors. One wild project. Taken by a Trillionaire is an escapism fantasy that was born at a party at RWA. Over cocktails, J. S. Scott, Melody Anne, and Ruth Cardello laughed as they plotted this book with the help of two industry friends, Chris and Brian...
  • Snared by L.L. Collins

    Snared by L.L. Collins

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BEAU has never known a good life, only the torment that lives inside his head every day. The only way to block out the darkness that shrouds him is through the rhythmic beat of his drums. Knowing what happens when he opens up to anyone, Beau buries his pain deep inside, keeping it all to himself. APRIL has lived a life of wealth and privilege, full of love and support...
  • A Christmas Wish: Dane by Liliana Hart

    A Christmas Wish: Dane by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    **A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR**. Dear Readers,. A CHRISTMAS WISH is a continuation of Dane MacKenzie's story, DANE, which can be found for free at all retailers. It is highly recommended that you start with DANE since A CHRISTMAS WISH takes up where that novella ends...
  • One Hundred Chances: An Aspen Cove Romance Book 21 by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Chances: An Aspen Cove Romance Book 21 by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, where there is always a second chance for a first love…. Veterinarian Sara Arden made a mistake when she was a sixteen-year-old girl. The mistake wasn’t in falling in love with rancher Lloyd Dawson. It wasn’t even in getting pregnant. Sure, that part could have waited, but the mistake was in never telling him she had his daughter...
  • My Mountain Man Returns by Sadie King

    My Mountain Man Returns by Sadie King

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A secret baby and a second chance. .. Suzie gets a shock when her ex turns up all the way from England. But it's nothing compared to the shock he gets when he finds out what she's been keeping from him. My Mountain Man Returns is a secret baby, second chance romance featuring an ex-military hero and the curvy girl he tracks halfway across the world.
  • His Hush-Hush Baby - A Billionaire's Secret Baby Romance by Holly Rayner

    His Hush-Hush Baby - A Billionaire's Secret Baby Romance by Holly Rayner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ”Billionaire, charmer, hottie. .. crook? By the time I found out, I was already pregnant. Now I’ve got to keep my feelings a secret, along with my baby! ”. Diane Johansen has enough on her plate without worrying about finding a guy. As a professional artist whose work leaves her with little time for anything else, all thoughts of pursuing a love besides art seem far away...
  • Five Babies For The Boss by Layla Valentine

    Five Babies For The Boss by Layla Valentine

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I had the deal of the century sitting in my lap. But to close it, I needed a new image. So, I signed up to ‘borrow’ a mom and her baby. But now I’m getting five more! HER:. My boss isn’t quite as unavailable as he claims,. He’s not actually a family man at all,. And he needs to hire a family of his own if he’s going to close the biggest deal of his life;...
  • Lover's Leap by Emily March

    Lover's Leap by Emily March

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Readers have fallen in love with Eternity Springs, the magical town in Emily March’s beloved series where something wonderful happens to hearts in need of healing. Twenty years ago the town bad boy, Cam Murphy, left Eternity Springs in handcuffs, riding in the back of a sheriff’s van . . . and breaking young Sarah Reese’s heart. The defiant teenager vowed never to return...
  • Hot Man's Secret Baby Romance Series Box Set by Tiffany Foss, Mia Brown

    Hot Man's Secret Baby Romance Series Box Set by Tiffany Foss, Mia Brown

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For 2 days only get the entire Hot Man's Secret Baby Romance Series on KU. Hot Man's Single Mom’s Secret Baby. Hot Bodyguard’s Secret Baby. Hot Rockstar’s Secret Baby. Hot Priest’s Secret Baby. All have an HEA and were previously released as separate books.
    Categorized as:
    secret child  contemporary  humor  sports
  • Lords Of The White Castle by Elizabeth Chadwick

    Lords Of The White Castle by Elizabeth Chadwick

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Westminster, 1184-- in the court of King Henry, playful competition is about to turn into something far more serious. Young courtier Fulke FitzWarin would not be an obvious companion for Prince John, but the boy from the Welsh Marches is there as a reward for his family's loyalty to the crown...
  • Taking Fire by Cindy Gerard

    Taking Fire by Cindy Gerard

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Betrayal. Retribution. Redemption? Six years ago, tough-as-nails military contractor Bobby Taggart met the woman of his dreams in war-torn Kabul—a sexy, whip-smart war correspondent who approached him at a local bar, took him to bed, made him fall in love…and then mysteriously disappeared...
  • Love in Provence by Jo Thomas

    Love in Provence by Jo Thomas

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Escape to the beautiful lavender fields of Provence this summer. Del moved to the south of France three years ago and hasn’t looked back. She’s found new friends, new purpose, and new love with gorgeous Fabien. But just as harvest on her little lavender farm is due to begin, Del gets some shocking news...
  • Born of the Sun by Joan Wolf

    Born of the Sun by Joan Wolf

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In this beautifully executed continuation of The Road to Avalon , her earlier depiction of sixth-century Britain, Wolf tells the story of Niniane, a Celtic princess, and Ceawlin, bastard son of the King of the West Saxons. Eighty years after the death of Arthur, the Celts are disorganized, drifting away from the cities built by the Romans...
  • Bad Habits by Sienna Mynx

    Bad Habits by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Simone Livingston wants desperately to start again. She and her husband Keith have both agreed that their marriage is worth saving. Despite the deep betrayal and lies she's suffered thanks to his infidelity. Their arrival in a small town run by the wealthy conniving Hollingsworths tests her faith in her husband and the sacred vows of her marriage...
  • It's Always Been You by Jacob Parker

    It's Always Been You by Jacob Parker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love is quickly becoming my least favorite four-letter word. I let a girl into my heart once, and she nearly destroyed me. The last time I saw her she was in the back seat of her father’s car, leaving me forever. No goodbye. No mercy. That was ten years ago. Now the sexy vixen from my past is back in town looking to hire a consultant. This is my way back in...
  • Make You Mine by Niobia Bryant

    Make You Mine by Niobia Bryant

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can two strangers make that lovin' feelin' last? Three months after a first date that ended in a night of explosive passion, Caress Coleman and Julius Jones find themselves somewhere between roommates with benefits and true love. She's smart, beautiful, and one paycheck away from broke. He's smart, handsome, and very successful. But that's just the beginning of their differences. . .
  • Red Adam's Lady by Grace Ingram

    Red Adam's Lady by Grace Ingram

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 6 ratings
    The redhead hooted gleefully and grappled Julitta to him, spinning her round adroitly so that she could only kick back at his legs. He heaved her from her feet and slung her over his shoulder. He tried to kiss her, but she ducked her head into the cloak so that her crown caught his chin and made his teeth clack. "Let me go! " she gasped...
  • Reunited: A Novella by Helen Hardt

    Reunited: A Novella by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    True love comes once in a lifetime. Will she grab her second chance? When Kathryn Abbott moves back to her hometown following her divorce, she doesn’t expect to run into Brett Falcone, the Italian Stallion. If possible, he’s even more appealing than he was twenty years ago when she, the nerd queen, tutored the popular baseball star...
    Categorized as:
    secret child  contemporary
  • Tommy's Baby (SEAL Daddies) by Annie J. Rose

    Tommy's Baby (SEAL Daddies) by Annie J. Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tommy O’Shea. The love of my life. The one that got away. Correction, the one I let get away. Now, a decade later, it’s still the biggest mistake I’ve ever made. Even bigger than the one that’s got me on the run for my life. I need to get out of town, change my name, start over. But where? Then a picture in a magazine draws me in. It’s him. My Tommy. He’s living and thriving in paradise...
  • Nanny for the Doctor: A Brother's Best Friend, Secret Baby Romance by Annie J. Rose

    Nanny for the Doctor: A Brother's Best Friend, Secret Baby Romance by Annie J. Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Be the nanny for my bestie’s niece? Perfect. The widowed single dad? Temptation in the flesh. The job would be great. If I could stop fantasizing about Jack. Piercing green eyes, stern jaw, always serious. How hot would it be if he ever lost control? One night of passion leaves me brokenhearted. He vowed never to risk his heart again after his wife died. I never expected to fall for my boss,...
  • July's Ride with Juice by Eve London

    July's Ride with Juice by Eve London

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Get ready for July's ride with Juice, a friends to lovers, secret baby, curvy girl MC club romance! Welcome to Mustang Mountain, where engines roar and loyalty reigns supreme. Beneath the shadowy peaks of the mountain, the Mustang Mountain Riders defend their ground against a dangerous gang trying to take over their small town...
  • Hunt Her Down by Roxanne St. Claire

    Hunt Her Down by Roxanne St. Claire

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    SOME VENDETTAS ARE HARD TO FORGET. Fourteen years ago, undercover FBI agent Dan Gallagher watched his lover, Maggie Varcek, flee into the Miami night as gunfire exploded around them. Now a Bullet Catcher, Dan has learned that drug lord Ramon Jimenez is out of prison after the FBI bust Maggie unwittingly aided, and is looking for revenge...
  • The Strangled Queen by Maurice Druon

    The Strangled Queen by Maurice Druon

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The King is dead. Long live the King. With King Philip IV dead, and the Kingdom left in disarray, as the fatal curse of the Templars plagues the royal house of France. Imprisoned in Chateau Gaillard, Marguerite of Burgundy has fallen into disgrace. Her infidelity has left her estranged husband, Louis X King of France, with neither heir nor wife...
  • The Bratva’s Secret Baby by Deva Blake

    The Bratva’s Secret Baby by Deva Blake

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’m forced to marry my ruthless Bratva ex. How long until he finds out that my child is his heir? After his rejection, I took my baby far away from the city and got a job as a librarian. I loved my innocent life, but now I’m forced to enter a marriage pact…. With the Bratva daddy who once turned me down. I see him everyday in my child’s blue eyes. But I refuse to live in the past...
  • Barefoot with a Bad Boy by Roxanne St. Claire

    Barefoot with a Bad Boy by Roxanne St. Claire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A man who trusts no one is forced to believe the unbelievable. .. For years, former spy Gabriel Rossi has been secretly searching for CIA linguist Isadora Winter, a woman he loved and lost long ago. But recently, he learned of her untimely death in an accident. .. and death of her son named Gabe...
  • Beyond These Walls by J.L. Berg

    Beyond These Walls by J.L. Berg

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Happily ever after. That was what we were supposed to have. Pudding cups, sandy toes and a lifetime of making each and every one of our dreams come true—that is the future I’d promised her. I could see it in my dreams, hold it in my hands, but then I watched as all of our hopes and wishes suddenly slipped through my fingers like sand...
  • In Pursuit of the Green Lion by Judith Merkle Riley

    In Pursuit of the Green Lion by Judith Merkle Riley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The unforgettable Margaret of Ashbury returns in the second book of the trilogy that began with A Vision of Light . Margaret, a resourceful midwife, is living with the insufferable relatives of her third husband, Gilbert de Vilers, known as Gregory. She is carving out a life for herself and her daughters despite the hostility and greed of her in-laws...
  • The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt

    The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    THE HEIRS OF CAHIRA O’CONNOR SERIES. BOOK TWO. A line of women who would be warriors for truth...
  • Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Portrait by Alison Weir

    Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Portrait by Alison Weir

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII's fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth novel in the epic and intrigue-filled Six Tudor Queens series. Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry VIII realizes he must marry again to insure the royal succession...
  • The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt

    The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "It is said that as Cahira, daughter of the great Irish king Rory O'Connor, lay dying of a wound from a Norman blade, she lifted her hand toward heaven and beseeched God that others would follow after her, bright stars who would break forth from the courses to which they are bound and restore right in this murderous world. .
  • Four Times A Daddy by Layla Valentine

    Four Times A Daddy by Layla Valentine

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He broke her heart, and her four babies never got a chance to know him,. Now he’s back and keen to pick up where they left off,. But how will he react to learning he’s a daddy, times four? HIM:. Everyone I’ve ever loved, I’ve let down,. Molly was the best person I ever knew, and when things got tough I ran,...
  • Wee William's Woman, Book Three of The Clan MacDougall Series by Suzan Tisdale

    Wee William's Woman, Book Three of The Clan MacDougall Series by Suzan Tisdale

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Scotland, 1345. They call him Wee William. Though he stands nearly seven feet tall, with arms and legs the size of tree trunks and hands as big as buckets, there is nothing wee about him. His scowl alone is enough to make most men's bones rattle with fear. And women, rather than swooning, tend to run in the opposite direction...
  • Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick

    Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Two very different women are linked by destiny and the struggle for the English crown. Matilda, daughter of Henry I, is determined to win back her crown from Stephen, the usurper king. Adeliza, Henry's widowed queen and Matilda's stepmother, is now married to William D'Albini, a warrior of the opposition. Both women are strong and prepared to stand firm for what they know is right...
  • No Commitment by Lisa Suzanne

    No Commitment by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No commitment. That was my deal with Tyler from the start, at least until his tour was over and we could be together. But thirty days filming a reality show here, two years overseas with his band there. .. Is it really any wonder why I didn’t tell him about the baby? He comes looking for me once he’s back in the country, but he runs into the man I married instead...
  • The Dark Rose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    The Dark Rose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    1501: Henry VIII. Paul, great-grandson of Elanor Morland, has inherited the Morland estates, and his own Amyas is set to be his heir. But Paul fathers a beloved illigitimate son, and bitter jealousy causes a destructive rift between the two half-brothers which will lead to death...
  • Unforgettable by Delaney Diamond

    Unforgettable by Delaney Diamond

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    She offered everything he never knew he needed…. Ivy Johnson is stunned when Lucas Baylor makes an appearance at her family’s event in Seattle. She hasn’t seen him in nine years and never expected to again. Avoiding him is a must. She can’t let him uncover her secret, but Lucas won’t be denied...
  • Angelica by Angelique Jones

    Angelica by Angelique Jones

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Family is many things to many people but in one woman’s world family means. Respect. Honor. Loyalty. These words are the meaning to life in her world. When these words are not followed there is only one other word that you must know. Revenge. For Angelica it is the only word that has held any meaning in her life for ten years...
  • Told You Twice by Kristen Heitzmann

    Told You Twice by Kristen Heitzmann

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Alexis Murphy is done messing with the wrong kinds of men. She could not be happier planning a personalized Grace Evangeline wedding with her fiancé, Jeffrey, who is so…right for her. Or is he? Stage star and spokesmodel, Bo Corrigan, could be the ultimate disruption. Alexis—Exi—is caught by his talent and sexual magnetism...
  • Four Secret Babies - A Second Chance Billionaire Romance by Layla Valentine, Holly Rayner

    Four Secret Babies - A Second Chance Billionaire Romance by Layla Valentine, Holly Rayner

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He has billions of dollars. But he doesn't have a baby. Well guess what? That's going to change - four times over! CHLOE:. When you land a job with a billionaire, you keep your eyes on the prize, right? What you don't do is sleep with their hot-as-hell playboy son, but of course I did just that. I let him sweep me off my feet,...
  • Joanna by Roberta Gellis

    Joanna by Roberta Gellis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beautiful, iron-willed heiress to power, Joanna secretly burns with an explosive inner passion as wild and-- radiant as her flaming red hair. But her deepest emotions are tragically frozen by the cold fear of a man's tender love...
    Categorized as:
    medieval  contemporary  historical
  • The Revised Life of Ellie Sweet by Stephanie Morrill

    The Revised Life of Ellie Sweet by Stephanie Morrill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ellie Sweet is a lot of things—good girl, novelist, silent adorer of the new boy at school, Palmer. But when “outcast” gets added to the list, she decides it’s time to take reality into her own hands … and tweak it as needed. In the pages of her book, she’s Lady Gabrielle, favorite of the medieval Italian court...
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